My Open University course started yesterday and so far it looks like I'm going to really enjoy it. It's completely online, so that makes it very flexible in terms of when you study, they expect you to put in around 8hrs per week which doesn't seem too bad. In practice though finding 8 hrs of free time per week isn't a problem, but finding 8 hrs per week when it's quiet enough to study might be a bit more of a challenge.

I suppose I'm quite lucky because I work away from home for a night or two per week, so I'll take all my materials with me and do some studying at the hotel.

I really wish I had done a course like this for MS Access (yeah, I know!) but I learnt that myself, I can do some pretty complicated things with Access but I can't help thinking that I haven't quite got the basics right.